Articles by mika

Nikki

kitsune

Making a cute fox shaped key holder from fox fur. Something is wrong with that picture.

goutou

I think the trick to succeeding in burglary is to be really really really good looking (just like Ben Stiller in Zoolander). I feel like that’d make many people hesitate when they find the burglar if he/she is super beautiful and polite and confident whereas scrubby, not so clean burglars would just make them run to the telephone right away.

megane

On the way to the airport, people were staring at my face and I felt a bit uncomfortable. Then I remembered that I was wearing my glasses. They’ve got many of the gummy bear colors and often draw people’s attention.

Just by realizing what’s actually happening, smirk becomes friendly smile and hostile stare becomes curious faces. It makes me think that I shouldn’t interprete people’s expression so quickly.

ushi

I’ve seen Japanese commercials where they show “loving” cow/pig farmers. How do they manage to do that though? After naming the pigs, feeding them good food, making sure they don’t get sick, telling them how great they look (optional), and making friendship with them, you have to send them to a slaughter house.

I mean it’s better to provide a good life while the pigs are alive but still I feel like if I were such a farmer, I’d need two separate brains to put in my head every morning (one for loving and caring about them, one for thinking about how yummy their meat is). hmm..how do these farmers do that with one brain?

utsuru

I wonder if people can tell me looking at the reflection of myself on glass from me looking what’s behind the glass. Of course, if I’m fixing my hair or doing something that suggests my use of glass as a mirror, it’s easy: but can they tell when I’m just staring at myself or the stuff behind the glass?

satsuei

I notice people in subway stations repeating the same thing over and over until the train comes. Those who are standing at the edge to see if the train is coming turns their heads away when their vision rays come across with the rays of other people who are standing ahead (towards the previous station) on the platform. When they turn around, their eyes catch the people behind them and they have to turn their heads back to the first direction while these people behin in turn look away to their behind.

I think you can make a music video using this scenario. At first, people doing this turning their heads around thing naturally and eventually synchronizing to the music and start dancing.

docchi

I asked myself: Would I rather be made of clay or glass? Glass would be pretty but fragile; clay would be kinda stinky but I can change the ways I look and can stand more impact.

Hmm…

kurikaeshi

I’ve blogged about a lot of nonsense matters. My only fear in continuing blogs is that someday, I might write about the same idea I’ve already addressed once…maybe I already have..

nezumi

One of the ways to mark lab mice is to punch their ears. #1 would have a hole on the right, #2 would be one on the left, etc etc.

I’m not the biggest fan of animal experiments. I think these should be done as humanely as possible and only when absolutely necessary. I thought punching the ears would be like piercing our ears and thought that wouldn’t be too bad. However, I saw mice squirming their faces as their ears get punched (not by me) today. It occurred to me then that if 1/10 of my ears get punched, that would hurt like “a” hell (Mako likes to count hells).

If this procedure is necessary, at least put them to sleep…

hashi

There are certain kinds of food that taste bad when not eating with the “correct” utensils. For example, having miso-soup with a fork or a spoon. Or eating Manacotti with a tea spoon. These utensils do work except I don’t get as much joy from eating these foods…

Eating yogurt with a small coffee/tea spoon enhances the flavour for me though.

nikobore

When I biol noodles/pasta, I sometimes put a lid on the pan without any vent space. As a result, the water boils out, so I usually let it vent. When I take away the lid to see how the noodles are doing, they quickly hide all the bubbles they were making to boil the water out of the pan. I feel like I’m checking on little kids who are planning some trouble in secret and pretend nothing is happening when mom sticks her head in their rooms.

ougonritsu

I didn’t know the true meaning/origin of the golden rule and after I looked it up and learned it, I asked Mako, “Could you please sleep on my right side because I like to sleep on your right side…” Mako told me I didn’t understand the Golden Rule at all…

Maybe I’ll ask him to sleep on my left side next time.

mizu

I hate these first couple seconds of cold water time in a shower. I usually flatten myself against the wall under the shower head until the water gets warm.

I also hate it when I jump into the lukewarm shower thinking it’s going to get nukewarm and find out the water doesn’t get warm for like half an hour.

naku

What’s the evolutional benefit/meaning of shedding tears when being sad?

kantaro

In my apartment, I check how windy it is outside not by looking at the trees outside (since there aren’t as many of those as Seattle..) but by looking at the toilet water. When it’s super windy outside, the toilet water makes waves on the surface just like those you see on cruise ships. It’s kinda cool.

I’ve yet to figure out why the toilet water is affected by the wind…

kaba

Everyone has a school site for hippopotamus in their brains. It’s very important to keep this place functional since this is where we form our thoughts and reasonings.

The Japanese word for hippopotamus is kaba and if you change the order of letters, it’s baka (not smart). The word baka was made when somebody confused ba (horse) with ka (deer). The disorder in the hippopotamus school site can confuse your mind.

Omega-3 fatty acid can help maintain the order there.

nisoku hokou

I was looking at a British passport and I saw a lion and a horse standing on their rear legs against some national mark. That picture reminded me of something; drag-queens. Those musculine animals standing on two feet are unnatural in a way similar to drag-queens who look obviously like just guys with a skirt and fake breasts. (http://www.stockphotography.co.uk/Store/App/f.asp?C=7 Go to: Misc/Abstract/Money, coins etc)

This doesn’t mean that all drag-queens look unnatural and poorly disguised. I’ve met one of the most beautiful “lady” at Washington DC gay festival. I thought sHe was a supermodel…I’d love to meet that queen again.

niterukamo

Audrey Hepburn in Charade (when she tries to disguise with sunglasses and a white(?) hood) + mustache = beautiful unabomber

suisou

I was searching for a fish tank for my betta-max on ebay. I saw a couple people selling “cat-shaped ” fish tanks. Then I thought I should make a geisha shaped fish tank – only the people who think about it hard can get the real message.

I wouldn’t put my fish in a cat/geisha shaped fish tank. That’s kinda mean…

doubutsu

Sometimes, I wish beagles were bagels. Not because I’m that hungry but because I heard that beagles are popular experimental subjects because they bleed well… I might feel less horrible if bagels were used to test mutations and such. Maybe. Maybe not. I like bagels too.

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